doodledee

That new show Coupling debuted last week on NBC. I think it got bad reviews, though to be fair, that's just the sense I got because I didn't really read anything about it.

I did see that ratings for the show were lower than last year's new show in that timeslot, Good Morning, Miami. And that's a big 'ouch'. Don't get me wrong, that Ashley Williams chick is hot and all, but Good Morning, Miami is profoundly stupid. Denominators do not get any more common. If Coupling didn't do even as well as it did, then it's only a matter of time.

Personally I didn't watch because after seeing like a thousand commercials and reading flipping through tons of magazine articles about the show and the cast and how it was British but now it's American but it's basically the same thing only here in America we have better lighting and hotter chicks so tune in please oh god please we're dying here seriously did you see how old that Phoebe chick looks she can't act 28 anymore it's just silly and I was sick of the whole thing before it even started.

I think there's a real, measurable backlash against things that are so forcibly marketed at us. And it think it's realized most strongly in the type of people who are in the meaty part of Coupling's target demographic curve. And I think the show will fail because of it.

They should bring back Freaks and Geeks when it does.